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Peritoneal Dialysis International Journal

Awards

American Gastroenterological Association

Linda Rabeneck, AGA Institute Council Clinical Practice Section Research Mentor AwardThis award acknowledges AGA members for their achievements as outstanding mentors in a specific area of research.

College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario

Michelle Hladunewich, 2019 Council AwardCouncil presented the final 2019 Council Award to Dr. Michelle Hladunewich. Through her consultative practice, research and training of new nephrologists, Dr. Hladunewich has helped many women with serious kidney disease carry babies to term. Her work has become a model for others across the country looking to provide women with similar help.

CPAC

Mingyao Liu, 2019 CPAC Professional Achievement AwardThis award celebrates the achivements of immigrant professionals who have achieved significant success and outstanding status in a recognized profession.

Cystic Fibrosis Canada

Cecilia Chaparro, Dr. Douglas Crozier AwardThis award recognizes a healthcare professional who has demonstrated exceptional support to individuals living the cystic fibrosis.

Dravet Syndrome Foundation

Danielle Andrade, Clinician-Research AwardProject Title: Multi-modal assessment of adults with Dravet syndrome. Dr. Andrade plans to better characterize the adult patient with Dravet syndrome. She will study balance, gait, posture, memory, ability to perform day-to-day activities, and genome in a cohort of adults with Dravet syndrome to test the hypothesis that there may be premature brain ageing in adult patients. They also plan to explore whether previous use of contraindicated medications influence adult outcome

University of Toronto, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology

Mark Boulos, Division of Neurology Publication Award (Category 1 - Clinical Research)Awarded to the best original research paper published from November 2018 – November 2019 in a high impact journal. Our submission was a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of published normative sleep data (the largest analysis published to date) and was published during April 2019 in Lancet Respiratory Medicine (impact factor 22.992).

Mario Masellis, Division of Neurology Publication Award (Category 2 - Basic Research)Awarded to the best original research paper in this category which includes studies of a mechanistic/exploratory nature (e.g. neurophysiology, neuroimaging, cellular/molecular, biomarkers, etc.) involving patients, animal and basic science research from in a high impact journal in Brain (impact factor 11..814).